Our little peeper cheepers

An Australorp, a Turken, a White-crested Black Polish, a Wellsummer, and a Buff Orpington.

A Buff Orpington

The White-crested Black Polish, a Delaware, an Australorp, a Wellsummer, another Delaware, the Buff or White Polish, and the other Wellsummer.

Not pictured are the two Brahmas who have feathered feet. If you look closely, you'll see Asher's Turken in the top photo has no feathers on his neck. Google turken and check them out. They're the ugliest bird I've ever seen and Asher loves it. His name is Bad Guy Super Hero.
The chicks are living in the house in Micaela's old bedroom- the only room left now with old yucky carpet. They currently are housed in a plastic kiddy pool with pine bark shavings. We discovered yesterday that they can get out by accident. They'll probably start trying to get out in a couple of days. We're going to circle it with chicken wire, I think.

Their brooder light is so bright my camera won't hardly focus. They are growing really fast. I'd say they're twice as big today as they were last Saturday. They're getting noisy. They're keeping Ian up at night and waking him up in the morning. I think we're sending them outside in three weeks. We can't wait to find out who are hens and who are roos.

In other farm news (hehe) we planted 50 asparagus and about 36 potatoes yesterday. Some of the potatoes are blue! I hope we can have blue mashed potatos this year :) We double dug and tilled up the spaces for them, as soon as they come up we'll mulch. We plan to interplant too- some mint, basil, tomatos, and parsley with the asparagus and I don't know yet what with the potatos.

It's still too wet to plow. We may never plow this year- just dig and till as we go through the garden. I'm such a nerd I actually drafted a garden plan on google sketchup. I used a tape measure all along the fence and between the permanent beds to figure out our square feet, and then I made an arrangement of beds for different crops and left 400 sq ft for watermelons, and a big bed for corn.

Corn has never worked for us, but we're going to try it differently this year. And we're also going to try some other new things: sunflowers, peanuts, runner beans, yard long beans, tomatillos, ground cherries, and I hope to find new zealand spinach.